Chapter 17: Encountering Rats and Finding the Way II

Cha Wenbin also recognized these eight characters, but this made him feel interesting, why?

The eight sides of this bell are painted with the Eight Immortals.

Maybe even children can tell which eight immortals they are one by one?

The stories of the Eight Immortals who cross the sea told by most people today refer to: Tie Guan Li, Zhong Liquan, Zhang Guolao, Lan Caihe, He Xiangu, Lu Dongbin, Han Xiangzi, and Uncle Cao Guo.

Few people in the world know that there is another group of eight immortals, and most of them are Lu Dongbin, but in some extremely particular Taoist sects, it is Rong Chenggong, Li Er, Dong Zhongshu, Zhang Daoling, Zhuang Junping, Li Babai, Fan Changsheng, and Mr. Erzhu.

The Eight Immortals of Shu were seen in the Jin Dynasty as early as the Jin Dynasty, and Chen Xiu recorded in the "Shu Chronicles" that the above eight people became immortals in the land of Bashu, and called them the Eight Immortals of Shu, who was the first Rong Chenggong at the beginning?

That is Lao Tzu Li Er's master, Comrade Lao Tzu is among the patriarchs of the Three Qing Dynasties, what is the weight of his master?

Who are Zhang Daoling and Dong Zhongshu?

Those are all real existences, the ancestors of the opening sects of the various avenues.

Therefore, the weight of the eight immortals in Shu is far greater than the folklore of Lu Dongbin, each of these eight have left enough to be called classics and cornerstone of Taoist works, such as Rong Chenggong's "Rongcheng **" twenty-six volumes, Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching", like Er Zhuxian is a double cultivation of Buddhism and Taoism, Li eight hundred is the Western Zhou Dynasty in Shu in the world, legend has it that he lived 800 years old since the Zhou Dynasty so he got such a nickname.

Cha Wenbin was surprised and surprised when he saw such a thing for the first time, northwest Zhejiang is located in the south of the Yangtze River, and this Hongcun is a remote village where birds don't, when did such a thing come to the house.

Look at the small bell is exquisitely made, but it is also a long time, is it a relic left by Ma Sufeng before, but I have never heard the master mention the matter of the eight immortals in Shu.

Looking at the bell of unknown origin, Cha Wenbin saw that the white-tailed mouse was still wandering on the ground, and asked, "Brother Mouse, where did you get this bell?" ”

The rat spun around twice on the ground and seemed to be not interested in answering Cha Wenbin's words, and he laughed self-deprecatingly: "It's also stupid, can the rat understand, I guess it was stolen from which grave......"

"Squeak Squeak"

The mouse spun around on the ground again, then glanced at Cha Wenbin and ran out of the house in an instant, just ran out and ran back at Cha Wenbin, so Cha Wenbin hurriedly got up from the bed, isn't this mouse really going to take himself somewhere?

Following these mice, Cha Wenbin came to his yard, this house was renovated by him not long ago, in the past, Ma Sufeng was an informal road, and he lived with Cha Wenbin not much stronger than the cowshed.

The rat came to the middle of the yard and kept turning, it was a hexagonal well, there was a long time ago, Cha Wenbin wanted to bury it when he repaired this house, but the water of this well was sweet and did not dry up all year round.

The rat walked around the edge of the well twice and then climbed down, this Cha Wenbin didn't understand, isn't this ......?

Unexpectedly, the rat crawled out of the well again, this time Cha Wenbin saw it really, although the wall of the well was covered with moss, but the gap between the stones was very large, the rat did not go down to the bottom of the well but disappeared halfway, his first reaction was that there was a gap in the well?

Went back to the house and found a rope tied to the peach tree in the yard, Cha Wenbin tied the rope and went down the well, sure enough, after less than three meters of effort, he really found a gap that could barely enter by himself, which was beyond his expectations.

The rat was jumping back and forth at the gap, and when he saw Cha Wenbin coming down, he slipped into the gap, Cha Wenbin thought to himself, didn't he tell me to go in?

In fact, he is not an adventurous person, but the impact of the bell on him is still very big, looking back at the darkness at the top of the well, Cha Wenbin still turned his head and got in.

He had a fire fold in his hand, and this gap could only make him crawl forward, and this gap was like a tunnel winding and twisting, but since he entered the cave, Cha Wenbin had never seen the mouse again.

Just a cup of tea, Cha Wenbin felt that he should have reached the end, this place seemed to be quite empty, the size of a room, looking at the bottles and cans on the ground that were either buried in the soil, or had been broken, Cha Wenbin realized that there should be an ancient tomb under the house where he lived.

The burial chamber is not large, and there are vaults in the shape of blue bricks above, and several pieces have also collapsed.

In the middle of the burial chamber is a coffin half buried in the earth, and the coffin is not colorable, and the wood is somewhat rotten.

There was also a humanoid object on the side of the coffin that had rotted into white bones, at first, Cha Wenbin thought it was also a burial person, but when he walked over, he found that it did not seem to be a human bone, because its skeleton was obviously much larger than ordinary people.

It's not human?

Cha Wenbin squatted down and carefully examined the skeleton, thinking of the shape of the skeleton and the little fur left on its head, Cha Wenbin thought of one thing: mandrill!

In many places in China, there are rumors of mandrills, this kind of infinitely powerful beasts that resemble people and non-human beings are also called savages, the most seen and heard is to appear in the Bashu area, in short, the northwest of Zhejiang has never heard of the appearance of mandrills.

"Huh"

, Cha Wenbin looked down and saw that there was a flying knife stuck in the bones of the left chest of the remains, he carefully took off the flying knife and pondered carefully, and always felt that this knife was a little familiar, as if the master Ma Sufeng also had it, and sure enough, when he carefully wiped the flying knife, a "horse" appeared like a shadow

The word appeared on the dagger, and Cha Wenbin's heart was "groan"

It's like knocking over a five-flavor bottle, why does the master's flying knife appear here?

A series of questions began to form in his mind, when did Ma Sufeng come here?

And why did you kill this mandrill?

How come I had never heard him talk about it?

As soon as I thought of the things I said to my master in front of the grave on the grave mountain today, this mouse brought me here at night, could it be that the master arranged it and wanted to say something to myself?

Cha Wenbin immediately began to search this small area, there was a rotten wreckage in the coffin that only left the thigh bone, everything here showed that it was just an ordinary ancient civilian tomb, and there were no valuable clues except for the remains of the mandrill and the throwing knife.

"Squeak Squeak"

At this time, the white-tailed mouse came out of the corner again, it didn't seem to be afraid of Cha Wenbin at all, and after turning around its trouser legs twice, the mouse jumped on the remains of the mandrill, and then jumped back and forth twice, stood up, and made a gesture of folding his hands.

"Brother Mouse, are you telling me to worship this mandrill?"

The mouse touched his beard, nodded at Cha Wenbin in the same way as a human, and then jumped up on Cha Wenbin's pants, until he kept sniffing the bell with his nose on his hand, and then turned over and fell on the mandrill again.

Cha Wenbin didn't know what medicine was sold in the gourd, so he asked, "You mean this bell belongs to this mandrill?" ”

The rat nodded again, but immediately it began to shake its head again, but it kept jumping back and forth between Cha Wenbin and the mandrill, and Cha Wenbin was confused.

Seeing that there was really no clue here, Cha Wenbin was about to leave, and the white-tailed mouse that he had just turned around had bitten his pants, but it was a pity that how could its body pull Cha Wenbin?

I rolled on the ground in embarrassment and could only "squeak"

called.

Cha Wenbin, who didn't want to entangle with it, said patiently: "Brother Rat, I'm really leaving, my friend is still waiting for me to save my life." ”

The rat knelt down on the ground towards the remains of the mandrill, and then began to kowtow in the form of a human being, only to buckle twice and call at Cha Wenbin, now Cha Wenbin understood it, and he asked, "Are you telling me to worship it?" ”

"Squeak Squeak"

The rat kept nodding and looked very happy, Cha Wenbin frowned and thought something was wrong, this mandrill was killed by the master, why would this rat let me worship it?

Suddenly, he suddenly thought of his life experience, Ma Sufeng had mentioned to him that he picked it up, but he didn't say where he picked it up.

But Cha Wenbin still came into contact with the society after all, he had also heard the story of an old Taoist priest who picked up a baby in the old grave, but he was indifferent and kind by nature, and when he was a child, others made fun of him for this pleasure, and he never argued.

Suddenly, a picture appeared in Cha Wenbin's mind: a tall black-haired mandrill was hiding in an old grave with a baby in his arms, a Taoist priest with a seven-star sword flashed, the mandrill fell to the ground instantly, the baby was taken away by the Taoist, and a bell was left in the hand of the mandrill, which was pulled from the baby's arms at the moment before it died......